An initial ranking for the top 20 anime of summer 2015 has appeared, as tallied by Sony’s mighty anime distribution empire – revealing that yet again nostalgia exudes a powerful influence, as the retro tribute of Ushio & Tora sits at the top of the ranking, trumping even the likes of Dragon Ball Super.

Overlord is the best anime of this season in my personal Ranking. After watched the first episode I was dumbfounded. I still stay at the first episode of overlord.then I watched it again and again. I was so expect for next episode.I bear the impulse of reading novel because it will reduce the fun of watching this anime.

The idea is fun and I really wanted to know where it's going after the first episode.
However already after the second episode you notice that the pace is rather slow to establish the world.
Maybe it's gonna rise in popularity if it actualy gets somewhere interesting.

i find overlord's 'stuck in the virtual world' setting more interesting than other recent animes of same premise; this time it's you (in the ultimate roleplaying in your life) and the NPCs given life as according to the game's lore. no other players so no boring & mundane RL interactions.

plus, there's little censoring (well, at least not too heavy of a censoring that GATE and prison school suffers from), sasuga madhouse. the scene where the knight literally got hacked to death is superb.

it's exciting to know what really happened to him and his body, that he's now losing his human's apathy. did his whole being got sucked and merged with the game, or only his soul, or he literally fell into another dimension after somewhat merging with the whole game system

How in the hell is the amazing adaptation of Prison School so low and the terrible adaptation of GATE so high. The GATE manga is one of my favorites at the moment but god damn those new character designs are garbage, the brutality has been wiped clean, and the pacing/directing is shit.